Sad at least in an educational environment. Any military example must be avoid to be teached to young people as long as we want a peaceful world. There are other ways to show how statistics can be focused on the missing more than the data itself. And no, not just the bikinis ;)
That, I believe, stop me if you have heard this before - far be it from me to reiterate stuff that you might have heard in other contexts, or may have been told repeatedly in increasingly annoyed tones - is, as the saying goes (it may be repetitive, tautological even) is the joke.
Our local doctor sent his kids down to play with my brother and me so they would catch chicken pox from us. The 1950's were not as great as people seem to remember! 🤣
Nice. Could you pretty please drop some alt text on it, so everyone can know it's a silhouette of a ww2 plane with damage locations of planes that made it home. This image has become the defining image for survivorship bias, and often posted ironically e.g. posts where it is the unlikely survivor.
Plane acne is a serious condition, luckily they came equipped with rapid fire lance like projectiles to drain them, so all planes had to do was point them at each other and problem solved. No one wants an itchy fuselage 😁
"Survivorship #bias is one of the #research issues brought up in the ... paper 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False', which shows that a large number of published #medical research papers contain results that cannot be replicated." @wikipedia.bsky.social
Every time I see this picture I also remember how Chevy failed to sell the Nova in Mexico because people read it as "no va" (no go).
And how the lesson is not about marketing to your customers but about how easily apocryphal takes spread because they *sound* true even though they're not.
The numbers on this need to go *much* higher for it to be perfect. Everything you post goes pretty big. I had to scroll back an entire week to finally find something you posted with *less* than 250 likes!
Alt Text: A twinned engine bomber aircraft with red spots over the wings tail and central fuselage showing where damage had occurred to aircraft that made it back to base after an op.
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It's a good example about how people view the world only through their own eyes, and therefore see eyes everywhere, leading to bad statistical takes.
Ohhhh....
The logic is indisputable.
Something about "survivorship bias" or something idk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Dammit you had me there for a minute.
Glad to have you posting over here now, you, Theo and Sherin were the only ones I missed.
And how the lesson is not about marketing to your customers but about how easily apocryphal takes spread because they *sound* true even though they're not.
(no bias detected)
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https://diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/on-seeing-whats-not-there-and-the-practical-exigencies-of-flying-without-an-engine/
Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato
but you're not wrong